If i just wanted to plot the brainstem 

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Abbie McNulty <amcnult1@stanford.edu> wrote:
Perfect. 
now if I wanted to use plotmesh with this, what would the variables be for x and y: plotmesh('x,y')

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:


[aseg,M,mr] = load_mgh('aseg.mgz');
ind = find(aseg == 16);


that will give you the indices in the aseg volume of the voxels that have the brainstem label (16). Then you can do what you want with it. The label came from $FREESURFER_HOME/FreeSurferColorLUT.txt


cheers
Bruce

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Abbie McNulty wrote:

So say I load aseg.mgz into matlab and I want to extract the brainstem in matlab to plot its own volumetric mesh vs. the entire brain, how would I extract
the brainstem in matlab?

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
      but why not just load the aseg.mgz or whatever volume you are using directly into matlab? Then each structure has a different index that you can
      extract with the find command

      cheers
      Bruce
      On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Abbie McNulty wrote:

            I attached the page in the last message, maybe it didn't show. I guess they aren't called segmentations, but
            isolation. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FreeviewGuide/FreeviewWorkingWithData/FreeviewAnatomicalVolumes
            This link describes the process that am I am working with, and there is an option to save these isolated pieces, and they save as a
            .vtk file, I am not
            converting anything

            Abbie 

            On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
                  Hi Abbie

                  I'm not sure what page you mean. The segmentations start life as an .mgz file, so why convert them at all? Just load the
            aseg.mgz (or whichever
                  segmentation you are interested in) into matlab directly

                  cheers
                  Bruce


                  On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Abbie McNulty wrote:

                        Hi Bruce,
                        So when I'm at this page, I am separating the different parts of the brain so that in the 3D view they show up as their
            own entity,
                        and I am trying to
                        individually save them. When I press the save button shown on the left hand side of the screen, it saves as a .vtk file,
            which makes
                        it difficult to upload
                        into matlab. Is there a way to convert this 3D brain piece as an .mgz file?

                        Thanks

                        On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
                        What segmentation do you mean? Where are you getting vtk files? We write the segmentation into .mgz volumes such as
            aseg.mgz


                        Cheers
                        Bruce


                        On Jul 18, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Abbie McNulty <amcnult1@stanford.edu> wrote:

                              So we were able to figure out how to segment the different parts of the brain using the bert sample, but have run
            into another
                        problem. 
                        I would like to save each segmentation so that I can import it into matlab and create a matrix in order to create a mesh.
            The volume
                        segment
                        saves a as a .vtk file, which I don't know how to read into matlab. How can I save it as or convert it to a .mgz file so
            that I can
                        import it
                        into matlab?

                        Thanks!

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